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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: Auto accident versus collision; I was wrong
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 23:02:53 -0400
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On 3/19/2025 6:41 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> On Mar 19, 2025 at 3:09:35 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 3/19/2025 5:45 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>   On Mar 19, 2025 at 2:25:16 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>   
>>>>   On 3/19/2025 4:32 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>     On Mar 19, 2025 at 1:15:23 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>>>     
>>>>>>     On 3/19/2025 3:43 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>>>       On Mar 19, 2025 at 10:30:16 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
>>>>>>>       wrote:
>>>>>>>       
>>>>>>>>       Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>         
>>>>>>>>>>       . . .
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>       When I was driving school buses, I found that my employers never used
>>>>>>>>>       the word "accident". If someone hit something while driving their bus,
>>>>>>>>>       even if it was the merest scratch, it was never an accident: it was
>>>>>>>>>       *always* a collision. (I'm sure this would have been true if a person
>>>>>>>>>       were hit, although I don't recall anyone ever hitting a person while I
>>>>>>>>>       worked there.) I feel sure this was their way of making us take
>>>>>>>>>       responsibility for what had happened. We didn't get to say anything that
>>>>>>>>>       implied that whatever happened couldn't be helped in some way. Even if
>>>>>>>>>       we weren't at fault, I think they expected that we could have done
>>>>>>>>>       something to prevent or minimize the event. Drivers were always taken
>>>>>>>>>       off the road for a day or two and made to have a retraining session with
>>>>>>>>>       another driver after a collision.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>       Your employer wasn't wrong: there was a collision.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>       I was a school bus driver too. We were told we would be blamed for a
>>>>>>>>       rear end collision (the vehicle behind colliding with the rear of the
>>>>>>>>       school bus) regardless of what the law said, because they always wanted
>>>>>>>>       us to leave adequate distance behind the vehicle ahead of the bus.
>>>>>>>       
>>>>>>>       How do you control how much distance there is behind you from other
>>>>>>>   traffic?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     Use your accelerator.
>>>>>     
>>>>>     And if there's traffic in front of you also?
>>>>
>>>>   Use your steering wheel.
>>>   
>>>   And do what? Run off the road with a load full of kids in the back?
>>
>> Them's the brakes.
> 
> Which leads us back to how you control how close the guy behind you is.

I'm being facetious, started with suggesting that school buses speed up 
to outrun trailing traffic.